Our Team - Supporting your success
Rachel Burton
Heather is an experienced administrator having worked on a variety of projects in the public, private and charitable sectors. Heather is a real people person and has a passion for helping and supporting others achieve their personal goals.
Rob Cao
A serial entrepreneur with a passion for values driven, ethical leadership and people enablement. In a career spanning over 20 years, Rob has founded, grown, sold and supported hundreds of companies worldwide. His track record includes delivering business growth totalling over £1 billion and supporting over a dozen multi-million pound company mergers and acquisitions.
Rupert Cox
Rupert has a wealth of small business experience on leadership roles for membership-based business organisations where an empathy and support for members' businesses was of paramount importance. Rupert's experience spans agriculture events, tourism, commercial property and marketing sectors.
Aisha Elliott
Aisha has a background in Business Development and Sales Consultancy, primarily in the Construction sector. She is a recent addition to our team as the Business Development and Marketing Co-Ordinator which is a new and varied role which suits her dynamic and ‘outside the box’ style.
Rachael Hartley
Rachael is a globally proven, curious business leader with over 25 years of executive experience from across the globe. As a business advisor, coach and facilitator she supports individuals and teams find clarity on their direction, achieve success and build resilience so that they can maintain overall balance, wellbeing and flourish both at work and at home
Sue Higgins
Sue has a background in event management and business support. She heads up the newly launched Training Hub and co-ordinates the Business Start Up Programmes. She also runs her own cake making business, and enjoys travelling, cycling and spending time with her family.
Jane Hummel (Chair)
A HR leader, professional and chartered member of CIPD, Jane brings a wealth of leadership experience from the NHS, police and small business sectors. She leads our the sba board as Chairperson and believes getting the process of staff management right makes any staff journey infinitely better.
Chris Jones
Chris is a Chartered Surveyor with a wide range of professional experience in the rural sector. Having spent his early career working for Savills and a spell with National Trust more latterly, Chris has built a strong professional grounding in land management and agricultural consultancy.
Sally King
Sally has a background working in the NHS, a Doctor's Surgery and a Primary School. She can be found in Glastonbury Library on a Monday morning, Shepton Mallet Library on a Monday afternoon and Chard Library on a Tuesday morning, assisting with the administration for our Community Employment Hubs.
Tracey Longhurst
Tracey started her career in the legal profession and then moved over to practice as an HR professional, where she worked in the corporate sphere for 25 years in both pharmaceutical and tech companies developing senior leaders and their teams. She is passionate about entrepreneurship and strives to continue to mentor those starting out on their journey as business owners.
Patricia Marks (CEO)
A business and social change thought leader with a significant executive portfolio of leaderships roles and experience across multiple sectors and industries. Patricia’s passion is “people success”. Her work and has helped develop thriving communities across the world working with partners across South East Asia.
Nevelle Marchent
Throughout his career, Nevelle has helped many companies across a wide sector range, from Product Development, Manufacturing, Engineering, Consultancy, IT, Medical sector and Commerce.
Natasha Margetts
Having worked in hospitality for 17 years, Natasha has established an outstanding reputation and for project management and administration. She is passionate about delivering world-class support enabling people to realise and achieve their potential and goals.
Mike McEvoy
Mike started his career in large Public Limited Companies, working in all areas of Business, following this he became Director in a number of SME Companies culminating in a Management Buy-out. (MBO). Mike has worked in a vast array of business sectors assisting individuals, SME’s and Private Equity Stakeholders.
Clive Ozzard
Clive has a wealth of experience and knowledge, with a background covering banking, sales, training and consultancy. He provides support to help business leaders across a wide range of sectors achieve their goals. He is a Chartered member of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development and a qualified performance coach.
Clare Paul
Clare’s background is in retail & hospitality management where she specialised in turning around unprofitable businesses. She then became a small business owner/entrepreneur herself and owned a successful public house, a retail butcher and a high street cafe. The particular skills that Clare brings to the SBA are her expertise in business analysis and planning. Clare is experienced in digital media marketing, lead generation and small business finance.
Sian Robinson
Sian is a business owner and lecturer in Business & Management at the University of Exeter. She is a staunch champion for entrepreneurship and fully encourages individuality and self-belief as key factors for becoming a successful entrepreneur.
Elizabeth Shaw
Elizabeth Shaw (Liz) background is in accountancy with significant industry experience in all aspects of business accounting. She is particularly interested in helping individuals set up and grow their business and has been able to turn around several struggling businesses using her accounting experience. She also set up her own business in 2018 and in the past has worked in a variety of different roles in some large organisations.
Gemma Sparks
Gemma is a Land Agent and Chartered Surveyor with a wealth of experience in the rural sector. For a number of years, she has helped farmers and land owners with business advice and assistance with seeking grants. Gemma also has experience in the events, rural tourism and business membership organisations sectors, alongside first hand experience of running a business, making her well placed to provide support to many rural businesses.
Graham White
An experienced leader in the design and print industries with specialist knowledge of import/export international trade, Graham has amassed a long and distinguished list of business directorship roles before becoming a business growth coach on High Growth and Growth Accelerator programmes. Graham has developed an extensive reputation as a business mentor in both International Development and general strategy
Amanda Whitlock
Amanda is an experienced Wellbeing and Mental Health trainer and consultant. Accredited by Mental Health First Aid England, she provides both MHFA-Accredited and bespoke training, she also helps business owners and managers looking to provide the correct support for employees and provides online and face to face courses to enable every workplace to provide the right work environment.
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Bow Street,
Langport, Somerset
TA10 9PN, United Kingdom